can re do this?

[Skaperen]

i mean an argument on the call to the re method. something in the regex that means to use the 3rd argument of the method call. i thought it might be problematic to insert arbitrary characters into regexs.

[snippsat]

i mean an argument on the call to the re method. something in the regex that means to use the 3rd argument of the method call. i thought it might be problematic to insert arbitrary characters into regexs

No this is not problem at all.

[Skaperen]

is there a way to make a regex that means to get data from somewhere? or is it all about making a complete regex?

[Gribouillis]

The correct way to insert arbitrary characters in a regex is to escape them with re.escape()

>>> import re
>>> chars = ['\\', '{', 'ᎈ', 'ᎉ']
>>> s = re.escape(''.join(chars))
>>> pat = f'[{s}]'
>>> re.split(pat, 'foo\\bar{spam}eggs')
['foo', 'bar', 'spam}eggs']

[Skaperen]

so, now, i need to find how to do this in reverse such that my set of characters are the ones i want in the result with all others being the separators. e.g. match everything except ...

[snippsat]

reverse such that my set of characters are the ones i want in the result with all others being the separators. e.g. match everything except ...

>>> import re
>>> 
>>> s = 'hello bus and cab 🤨'
>>> r = re.split(r'[🤨hello]', s)
>>> [x.strip() for x in r if x]
['bus and cab']
>>> 
>>> r = re.split(r'[^🤨hello]', s)
>>> [x.strip() for x in r if x]
['hello', '🤨']